Far more than Ferguson or Baltimore, Milwaukee last night had a real whiff of the 1960s, with the speed of community response and the torching of cop cars. Sorry, white Trump voters, you're far from the only ones sick of the shit going on around you.

And yet, good luck telling any of them that. I've gotten nearly physically ill trying to break through my family's confirmation biases and logical fallacies. It creates a very distinct depression.

For the sake of my sanity and due to the ease of being drawn into arguments, I could never sign up to Facebook. Even tho I tend to be more sad than angry when I read those kinds of exchanges, none of it is healthy for me.

Far more than Ferguson or Baltimore, Milwaukee last night had a real whiff of the 1960s, with the speed of community response and the torching of cop cars. Sorry, white Trump voters, you're far from the only ones sick of the shit going on around you.

And yet, good luck telling any of them that. I've gotten nearly physically ill trying to break through my family's confirmation biases and logical fallacies. It creates a very distinct depression.

For the sake of my sanity and due to the ease of being drawn into arguments, I could never sign up to Facebook. Even tho I tend to be more sad than angry when I read those kinds of exchanges, none of it is healthy for me.

That's why I have stopped posting or engaging in anything political. It's all about music, kid, dog, and RuPaul's Drag Race on JennyB's feed.

Far more than Ferguson or Baltimore, Milwaukee last night had a real whiff of the 1960s, with the speed of community response and the torching of cop cars. Sorry, white Trump voters, you're far from the only ones sick of the shit going on around you.

And yet, good luck telling any of them that. I've gotten nearly physically ill trying to break through my family's confirmation biases and logical fallacies. It creates a very distinct depression.

For the sake of my sanity and due to the ease of being drawn into arguments, I could never sign up to Facebook. Even tho I tend to be more sad than angry when I read those kinds of exchanges, none of it is healthy for me.

That's why I have stopped posting or engaging in anything political. It's all about music, kid, dog, and RuPaul's Drag Race on JennyB's feed.

I spend 90% of my Facebook time checking direct responses to myself, and log out every time I see anything even slightly irritating.

"he will make America safe again"? Isn't crime pretty much at a historical low?

Look, you have to establish context for these things. And I maintain that unless you appreciate the Fall of Constantinople, the Great Fire of London, and Mickey Mantle's fatalist alcoholism, live Freddy makes no sense. If you want to half-ass it, fine, go call Simon Schama to do the appendix.

"he will make America safe again"? Isn't crime pretty much at a historical low?

Are you suggesting that cops are oblivious to real world conditions, that they're in some kind of self-justifying ideological bunker?

Look, you have to establish context for these things. And I maintain that unless you appreciate the Fall of Constantinople, the Great Fire of London, and Mickey Mantle's fatalist alcoholism, live Freddy makes no sense. If you want to half-ass it, fine, go call Simon Schama to do the appendix.

BostonBeaneater wrote:Would someone please call the police to come and shoot this child?

NYC c. 1980s

It's funny, whenever there's a police shooting of kids with toy guns, I think of all the cap guns I had as a kid. Realistic enough looking, I suppose. In today's climate, would cops be as fine with me and my friends running around the neighbourhood with guns drawn?

Dr. Medulla wrote:It's funny, whenever there's a police shooting of kids with toy guns, I think of all the cap guns I had as a kid. Realistic enough looking, I suppose. In today's climate, would cops be as fine with me and my friends running around the neighbourhood with guns drawn?

Dr. Medulla wrote:It's funny, whenever there's a police shooting of kids with toy guns, I think of all the cap guns I had as a kid. Realistic enough looking, I suppose. In today's climate, would cops be as fine with me and my friends running around the neighbourhood with guns drawn?

How black are you?

I think I've accidently heard a rap "song" once.

My point, poorly expressed, was more about the marked shift to police as paramilitary in appearance and mentality. Obviously race matters in freedom of movement, but there's a certain obliviousness that my childhood had with regards to toy guns that I suspect even white kids don't enjoy now.

Dr. Medulla wrote:It's funny, whenever there's a police shooting of kids with toy guns, I think of all the cap guns I had as a kid. Realistic enough looking, I suppose. In today's climate, would cops be as fine with me and my friends running around the neighbourhood with guns drawn?

How black are you?

I think I've accidently heard a rap "song" once.

My point, poorly expressed, was more about the marked shift to police as paramilitary in appearance and mentality. Obviously race matters in freedom of movement, but there's a certain obliviousness that my childhood had with regards to toy guns that I suspect even white kids don't enjoy now.

Dunno, there's a fun obliviousness to running round with actual guns that white grown ups enjoy in North America.

Dr. Medulla wrote:It's funny, whenever there's a police shooting of kids with toy guns, I think of all the cap guns I had as a kid. Realistic enough looking, I suppose. In today's climate, would cops be as fine with me and my friends running around the neighbourhood with guns drawn?

How black are you?

I think I've accidently heard a rap "song" once.

My point, poorly expressed, was more about the marked shift to police as paramilitary in appearance and mentality. Obviously race matters in freedom of movement, but there's a certain obliviousness that my childhood had with regards to toy guns that I suspect even white kids don't enjoy now.

Dunno, there's a fun obliviousness to running round with actual guns that white grown ups enjoy in North America.

Those people would be terrified to go outside if they weren't armed. They're fully conscious of why they can go get smokes at that Muslim convenience store without being murdered. They just know.

Dr. Medulla wrote:It's funny, whenever there's a police shooting of kids with toy guns, I think of all the cap guns I had as a kid. Realistic enough looking, I suppose. In today's climate, would cops be as fine with me and my friends running around the neighbourhood with guns drawn?

How black are you?

I think I've accidently heard a rap "song" once.

My point, poorly expressed, was more about the marked shift to police as paramilitary in appearance and mentality. Obviously race matters in freedom of movement, but there's a certain obliviousness that my childhood had with regards to toy guns that I suspect even white kids don't enjoy now.

Dunno, there's a fun obliviousness to running round with actual guns that white grown ups enjoy in North America.